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j-oung are very common as far north as Cape Cod. The species 

 is seldom used for food. The name, shark's pilot, is in use at 

 homers Point N. J. 



Two individuals of the banded pilot were taken in Gravesend 

 fcay in September 1897. The species will live in captivity only 

 when it has ample room. It feeds on small killifish, which it 

 takes with a rush much like that of the brook trout. 



208 Seriola lalandi Cuv. & Val. (?) 

 Amber Fish 



Seriola lalandi CUVIEK & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat Poiss. IX, 208, 1833, 

 Brazil; GUNTHER, Cat Fish. Brit. Mus. II, 463, 1860; GOODE & BEAN, 

 Bull. U. S. F. C. I, 43, 1881; JOKDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat Mus. 

 271, 1882; JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat Mus. 122, 123, 1884; JORDAN & 

 EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat Mus. 903, 1896, pi. CXL, fig. 382, 1900; 

 BEAN, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist IX, 160, 1897; SMITH, Bull. U. S. F. C. 

 XVII, 97, 1898. 



Seriola gigas POEY, Memorias, II, 227, 1860, Cuba. 



ZonicUhys gigas POEY, Syn. Pise. Cubens, 371, 1868. 



Body oblong, moderately elongate, robust, its greatest hight 



^contained four and one fourth times in the total length without 



caudal, its width seven times; the least depth of the caudal 



peduncle equals one seventh of the length of head; head long, 



conical, its length two sevenths of total length without caudal; 



snout long and somewhat pointed, its length two and one fifth 



times diameter of eye and one third of length of head; the jaws 



-are equal in front; the maxilla reaches to below middle of pupil, 



and the length of the upper jaw is contained two and two 



sevenths times in length of head; the mandible is slightly more 



than one half as long as the head; the expanded end of maxilla 



exceeds the diameter of the eye, which is contained six and 



two fifths times in length of head; gill rakers 4+10, the longest 



nearly as long as the eye, very thin, much wider at base, and 



tapering gradually to a small, rounded point, very finely toothed 



-on inner margin; teeth in broad, villiform bands in both jaws, 



an arrow-shaped patch with long, slender backward process on 



vomer, similar bands on palate and pharynx. The distance from 



;snout to vertical from origin of spinous dorsal is nearly three 



times the length of base of the fin; the third and longest spine 



